Leila Company began an operating lease arrangement with Debco Industries, which was slated to begin on January 1, at monthly lease payments of $10,000. However, Debco's negligence prevented Leila from moving in on time-since it failed to clean up the place adequately enough to earn a Certificate of Occupancy from the township. Thus, on January 1, Leila spent $5,000 for leasehold improvements, which enabled her to obtain the needed Certificate of Occupancy on April 1. In any event, Leila paid Debco all the required $30,000 lease payments and has decided not to pursue legal action for the "un-ready" building. However, can Leila defer the $30,000 January-March lease payments over the remaining 33 months of the lease contract?
a) Provide responses for each independent case on the appropriate accounting treatment.
b) Support your responses with code sections from the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC).